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When sickness and suffering are visited upon us, it’s an opportunity to examine what we really believe. We may have said all the right things before difficulties came our way, but when they come we see how our hearts respond. We see the fears that surface and the ways we struggle. It takes intentionality to seek God, to calm our hearts, and to say, “Thy will be done.”
To kick off the new year, we are inviting everyone at Sound City to a month of dedicated, collective prayer. Each week, we will have a different area of focus as disciples: 1) relationship with God, 2) relationship with self, 3) relationship with the church community, and 4) relationship with the unbelieving world around us. Please set aside time each day to pray along the lines of the guidance provided below. The focus of this week’s prayer is our relationship with unbelievers.
To kick off the new year, we are inviting everyone at Sound City to a month of dedicated, collective prayer. Each week, we will have a different area of focus as disciples: 1) relationship with God, 2) relationship with self, 3) relationship with the church community, and 4) relationship with the unbelieving world around us. Please set aside time each day to pray along the lines of the guidance provided below. The focus of this week’s prayer is our relationship with the community of faith.
To kick off the new year, we are inviting everyone at Sound City to a month of dedicated, collective prayer. Each week, we will have a different area of focus as disciples: 1) relationship with God, 2) relationship with self, 3) relationship with the church community, and 4) relationship with the unbelieving world around us. Please set aside time each day to pray along the lines of the guidance provided below. The focus of this week’s prayer is our relationship with self and the way that God transforms our inner-life.
To kick off the new year, we are inviting everyone at Sound City to a month of dedicated, collective prayer. Each week, we will have a different area of focus as disciples: 1) relationship with God, 2) relationship with self, 3) relationship with the church community, and 4) relationship with the unbelieving world around us. Please set aside time each day to pray along the lines of the guidance provided below. The focus of this week’s prayer is our relationship with God.
There are thousand little ways that we can show Jesus love everyday, and I hope that we all avail ourselves of those opportunities. But I also want us to know about specific ways our brothers and sisters in Christ are showing this kind of love in our community. One of the community groups in our church has been serving the Vision House for 10+ years.
Prior to his passing in 2019, David Powlison was a well-known biblical counselor, author and speaker. He wrote an article about Psalm 131, our passage from this past Sunday. You can read his 9 page journal article here. What follows is a short paraphrase of some of the main ideas from the article.
